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Luv/rss. O'HIOHESTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Lette/rs Patent tNo. 93,67 7,. elated August 17, 1869; cntedcted yAugust 5, 1869.

APPARATUS Fon ELEVATING ANDWEIGHING COAL, am.

t -HW The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

T0 all whom it "1W/ll Concern The scale-beam is now balanced, andthen the proper Beitknown thatI, LEWIS SCHIOHESTER, of Brookweight added to eqnalthe load to be weighed. lyn, in the countyof Kings, and State of New York, have This weight d separates the` wheels 71, andJt, the inventedandrnadeacertain new andusefulImprovement bucket runs down to its place and hangs from the s'calein Elevating, and Weighing Goal, and other substance s; beam by the chain'f, andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear;A 1f, now, coalor other material should be added to and exact description of the said invention, reference the b ucket, sufiicientto turn the scale-beam, then the being had to the annexed drawing, making -part of wheels x and k coming together, the barrel e will be this specication, whereinrevolved and thebucket elevated, and upon the bucket Figure 1 is a plan, and being emptied,the scale-beam will tu-rn again the other Figure 2 isa side elevation, representing -the imway, separating the wheels h and it, and allowing. the proved Weighing and elevating-apparatus. bucket to descend.

Similar marks of reference denote thesame parts. The barrel e might be placed transversely of the Various devices have heretofore been made for elebeam, so as not to vary the leverage in windingl on the vating coal and other articles from canalfboats, barges, rope or chain, and in cases where-more convenient, Snc., butno opportunity was given .in such apparatus the rope or chain may be' led under and over frictionfor weighing the coalv in the act of elevating it, so as pulleys, between the scale and the bucket, so as to Vto keep an account of the weight, without interfering hoist the bucket at the most convenient position. Friction-wheels, or gears, or other convenient mechwith the delivery of said material.

My apparatus accomplishes the aforesaid object, and anism may be employed to actuate the elevating-.por

tion of this apparatus.

consists in .an elevating and weighing-apparatus oom- A retaining-bar, fm, above the fulcrum b, prevents f bined in such a manner that the introduction of thethe yscale-beam 4being lifted from said fulcrum when given weight into the bucket, and the consequent turning of thescale, bring '-into action the elevatingthe weighted bucket brings the wheels h and It together.

mechanism, thereby causing' the apparatus to be au- In place of the weight being applied directly to the tomatic. p

In the'drawing, I have represented one of the modes beam c, it might be applied to a lever or steelyard,

graduated and connected to the beam c.

in which my invention may be put into practice.

c represents a platform, of any desired character; What I claim, and desire to secure by' Letters Patb, the knife-edge fulcrum of the scale-beam c ent, is' d is theweight; and l The windlass or -bar'nel e, mounted upon the scalee is a windlass-ba-rrel, mounted' upon 'the scalebeam, in combination with the revolving wheel k, and beam c. bucket to -contain vthe material to vbe elevated, sub- Freni this barrel e is arope or chain, f, to the bucket stantially as and for the purposes set forth. g, and his a gear orfriction-wheel on the shaft ofthe In witness whereof, I have .hereunto set my signawindlass e, contiguous to a similar' wheel, k, on a shaft, ture, this 9th day of December, 1868.

- 'LEWIS S. GHIGBESTER.

t', that is continuously revolved by 'competent power'.

The rope f is to he let out a sufficient length', sothatA the bucket will reach the desired place. i The rope is then clamped, so 'that y.the bucket will yonly Vrun down to the same point each time,.and thereby the leverage onthe scale-beam will not be varied.

Witnesses s.

.G nAs. H. vSMITH,

GEO. T. 'Pmckrmi 

